Our continuous integration build using CruiseControl currently does a :-
mvn install
however this doesn't produce any HTML JUnit reports, so we then then follow
the above with
mvn surefire-report:report
to generate the html reports. This seems to do more than just generate the
html it actually runs the tests. So I thought maybe I should bind the
execution of surefire-report:report plugin to the test phase so that it
happens automatically.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>surefire-report-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>produce HTML reports</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<configuration>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
But this gives me two problems :-
1) If a test fails the above is never executed - so you can't see failed
tests in HTML. This is also true if surefire-report:report is invoked
separately. There's seems no point in having pretty html reports if the
results is always 100% and therefore you don't need to look at them
2) If no tests fail, then the above plugin causes the executions of the
tests to go into an endless loop !
Any thoughts?
